So the machines are going to create huge farms of vat grown cars suspended in oil filled pods, with their onboard computers wired into a reality simulator, so they can harvest their energy?
Sounds like a Cars and Matrix crossover. Somewhere, someone in making a Neo/Mater slashfic.
Accidents will be bad, but it will also cut down on the number of ricers out there. Darwin at work, lets see those lil shits drill mout holes into the charged capacitor that is their car's body. They'll get a lovely blue light. Blue-white actually, and only for the split second that the rest of their lives entail.
Not officially, but I still have my theories about Charlie Brown's friend Pigpen. It looks like he sheds his weight in oddly behaving dust every 20 steps or so...
Plug ratings depend on the amount of power that can safely be drawn over the wires. It doesn't push 30A out the plug into whatever is being powered, it just lets the device draw up to 30A.
Fusion powered swallows? Well shit, the waste from those is going to take a hell of a toll on car paintjobs. And chassis. And engine blocks. And the street beneath...
After issuing the bonds and doing a lot of costly work to plan for it. There's also the court costs of defending themselves, and the costs of idling a large project.
So yeah, they got their fiber, but they have to pay the telco back for it in inflated service charges anyway, and they just wasted a lot on their failed attempt. And believe me, the telco will charge even more than they would have, out of spite and monopoly.
3 ceiling fans in my house, each sporting 3 or 4 100watt CFL bulbs. In the 8 years of use so far, two have burned out and one played dead (wasn't screwed in tight, surprisingly). We purchased them from walmart for something like $2.50 each, GE brand.
Like other have stated, stay away from the $1 generics and they last a long time.
New edition is rather interesting. Everything is wireless now so deckers can now rig somewhat effectively, and highly invasive cyberware isn't a requirement to rig anymore. Plus the technomancers, otaku of last edition, can be great riggers themselves.
I do personally credit riggers as a contributing factor to my love for UAVs now.
5 screws, spin a couple numbers back: "Yes sir, I only drove this car 7 miles in the past year. Yes this is my only registered car, and I live 8 miles away, why do you ask?"
I guarantee that within a couple months you'll start seeing showerheads in stores with automated injectors that spray alcohol through the nozzels after every shower (of course with an overpriced disposable hand sanitizer cartridge).
There's been some renewed interest in the uranium mines in Wyoming lately. I had to help retrieve and convert some old lotus 1-2-3 files that contained water sample from 1994 from the mines, because a federal agency requested it.
The problem though is with all the wind turbines going up, not only is wyoming becoming a large power producer (centralized power generation can be a problem when said area is prone to deadly blizzards that snap powerlines). But we lack the capacity to actually transmit much more power than we already produce.
Well that depends. Wyoming residents are pretty divided on the issue.
On one side you've got the Rancher mentality, the people who would love nothing more than to wipe from the face of the earth every native species that competes with/preys on their cattle or someone else's cattle. Strangely enough I work with a couple, at the department of environmental quality. These people have no problem lopping the tops off the land, be it stripmining, hills, or even the mountains.
On the other side you've got the NOLSies, comprised of NOLS students (who tend not to bathe), rock/ice climbers, and nature enthusiasts. These people object to any sort of sullying of wyoming's natural landscape, usually because some friend of a friend did a study and found natural gas rigs cause a 2% decline in field mice populations.
Yeah, not much to do around here so people get pissy about the environment, either for or against it...
Hah, I knew it! I'm not getting fat, the earth gravitational pull on me is increasing, making the scale show more weight every month. Now that I've solved that mystery I'm going to get some mcdonalds.
While I doubt this thing is just a camera with wheels and no other instruments, why would that be a bad thing? Show a kid a telescope view of a moon crater, then show him the high def 3D view of the same crater from a 1st person view, and I guarantee some of those kids will forget about firefighting and want to go to the moon.
Besides, think of how much fun it'll be to take recently released high def lunar photos, photoshop in some subtle evidence of aliens, and forwarding it along to a local newspaper.
No one (yet, though that's an argument for the next attempt to legalize drm enforcement goonsquads), I do have money to spare to provide myself and my family with entertainment, but it is not unlimited. On one side I cannot go without entertainment of some sort, and computer games tend to provide the most efficient time/dollar ratio. On the other side I can't just blindly toss money at every new game and expansion that comes out. I have fallen for a couple bad purchases in the past (like that stupid 1001 games CD walmart had when I was in HS, chock full of demos and crappy card games).
If it came down to it, that I would have to trust 3rd party reviews and press info entirely for my game purchase decisions instead of grabbing the thing off a torrent and trying it, I just wouldn't buy. I'd pick up the occasional good one if someone I knew took the plunge and found a good egg, or if something got consistently good reviews and ended up in the $10 section of walmart, but that's it.
Call me a pirate all you want, but I saved myself $90 on those worthless expansions, and because I didn't waste that money I not only have it to purchase this new sims, but I'm not so disappointing that I'm not even considering the purchase.
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So the machines are going to create huge farms of vat grown cars suspended in oil filled pods, with their onboard computers wired into a reality simulator, so they can harvest their energy?
Sounds like a Cars and Matrix crossover. Somewhere, someone in making a Neo/Mater slashfic.
Accidents will be bad, but it will also cut down on the number of ricers out there. Darwin at work, lets see those lil shits drill mout holes into the charged capacitor that is their car's body.
They'll get a lovely blue light. Blue-white actually, and only for the split second that the rest of their lives entail.
Not officially, but I still have my theories about Charlie Brown's friend Pigpen.
It looks like he sheds his weight in oddly behaving dust every 20 steps or so...
Hah! Further proof of the secret buggy whip manufacturer conspiracy!
Plug ratings depend on the amount of power that can safely be drawn over the wires. It doesn't push 30A out the plug into whatever is being powered, it just lets the device draw up to 30A.
Power is drawn, not pushed.
Fusion powered swallows?
Well shit, the waste from those is going to take a hell of a toll on car paintjobs. And chassis. And engine blocks. And the street beneath...
Heavily laden hopefully.
After issuing the bonds and doing a lot of costly work to plan for it.
There's also the court costs of defending themselves, and the costs of idling a large project.
So yeah, they got their fiber, but they have to pay the telco back for it in inflated service charges anyway, and they just wasted a lot on their failed attempt.
And believe me, the telco will charge even more than they would have, out of spite and monopoly.
3 ceiling fans in my house, each sporting 3 or 4 100watt CFL bulbs. In the 8 years of use so far, two have burned out and one played dead (wasn't screwed in tight, surprisingly).
We purchased them from walmart for something like $2.50 each, GE brand.
Like other have stated, stay away from the $1 generics and they last a long time.
Like posting bad reviews of it after you lost interest in the first 5 minutes.
New edition is rather interesting. Everything is wireless now so deckers can now rig somewhat effectively, and highly invasive cyberware isn't a requirement to rig anymore. Plus the technomancers, otaku of last edition, can be great riggers themselves.
I do personally credit riggers as a contributing factor to my love for UAVs now.
And the other half of the neighborhoods were virtual whorehouses.
All they needed were chemistry sets to cook up drugs so people could start whole neighborhoods of crack dens.
It's been out long enough that generics are available, no company will be able to get a stranglehold on supplies and jack up the price.
5 screws, spin a couple numbers back: "Yes sir, I only drove this car 7 miles in the past year. Yes this is my only registered car, and I live 8 miles away, why do you ask?"
I guarantee that within a couple months you'll start seeing showerheads in stores with automated injectors that spray alcohol through the nozzels after every shower (of course with an overpriced disposable hand sanitizer cartridge).
75MPH? Where are you going that slow, a school zone?
Dunno. When's fusion supposed to be out?
There's been some renewed interest in the uranium mines in Wyoming lately. I had to help retrieve and convert some old lotus 1-2-3 files that contained water sample from 1994 from the mines, because a federal agency requested it.
The problem though is with all the wind turbines going up, not only is wyoming becoming a large power producer (centralized power generation can be a problem when said area is prone to deadly blizzards that snap powerlines). But we lack the capacity to actually transmit much more power than we already produce.
Well that depends. Wyoming residents are pretty divided on the issue.
On one side you've got the Rancher mentality, the people who would love nothing more than to wipe from the face of the earth every native species that competes with/preys on their cattle or someone else's cattle. Strangely enough I work with a couple, at the department of environmental quality.
These people have no problem lopping the tops off the land, be it stripmining, hills, or even the mountains.
On the other side you've got the NOLSies, comprised of NOLS students (who tend not to bathe), rock/ice climbers, and nature enthusiasts.
These people object to any sort of sullying of wyoming's natural landscape, usually because some friend of a friend did a study and found natural gas rigs cause a 2% decline in field mice populations.
Yeah, not much to do around here so people get pissy about the environment, either for or against it...
I want a car that, when the gas tank nears empty, says "You require more unleaded gas."
Hah, I knew it! I'm not getting fat, the earth gravitational pull on me is increasing, making the scale show more weight every month.
Now that I've solved that mystery I'm going to get some mcdonalds.
I'd say something snarky, but that would require effort.
While I doubt this thing is just a camera with wheels and no other instruments, why would that be a bad thing?
Show a kid a telescope view of a moon crater, then show him the high def 3D view of the same crater from a 1st person view, and I guarantee some of those kids will forget about firefighting and want to go to the moon.
Besides, think of how much fun it'll be to take recently released high def lunar photos, photoshop in some subtle evidence of aliens, and forwarding it along to a local newspaper.
No one (yet, though that's an argument for the next attempt to legalize drm enforcement goonsquads), I do have money to spare to provide myself and my family with entertainment, but it is not unlimited.
On one side I cannot go without entertainment of some sort, and computer games tend to provide the most efficient time/dollar ratio. On the other side I can't just blindly toss money at every new game and expansion that comes out. I have fallen for a couple bad purchases in the past (like that stupid 1001 games CD walmart had when I was in HS, chock full of demos and crappy card games).
If it came down to it, that I would have to trust 3rd party reviews and press info entirely for my game purchase decisions instead of grabbing the thing off a torrent and trying it, I just wouldn't buy. I'd pick up the occasional good one if someone I knew took the plunge and found a good egg, or if something got consistently good reviews and ended up in the $10 section of walmart, but that's it.
Call me a pirate all you want, but I saved myself $90 on those worthless expansions, and because I didn't waste that money I not only have it to purchase this new sims, but I'm not so disappointing that I'm not even considering the purchase.